Question

A writer from this country said that he’s sure another author’s poetry “will endure” in an essay titled “Eight Seconds with [an author from this country].” That author from this country wrote “The Individual’s Soliloquy,” and often declared “I take back everything (10[1])I’ve said.” The speaker of a poem by an author from this country describes “the tenderness, (-5[1])light as water and as flour. / And the word scarcely begun on the lips.” An author from this country wrote “It so happens I am sick of being (10[1])a man” in “Walking Around.” (10[1])Nicanor Parra is from this country, as is an author who wrote in a poem that “In you everything sank!” (10[1])and declared “It is the hour of departure.” For 10 points, name this home country of the author of “The Song of Despair,” Pablo Neruda. ■END■

ANSWER: Chile [or Republic of Chile or República de Chile] (The first line is from Roberto Bolaño’s essay “Eight Seconds with Nicanor Parra.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard NiuCornell CColumbia B4110
Eshan PantNYU AYale A57-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia ARutgers A8610
Karsten RynearsonYale ANYU A9110
Ethan FurmanHaverfordRowan A11110

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